You Rise and Meet the Day - Dar Williams

We could pretend that we’re walking on petals and light, golden light

Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered, turning from left to right

But after all the colored lights are gone

Time will leave the ashes and the dawn

You rise and meet the day

I’m watching you go, it’s like spying on hope ever onward with more to burn

Giving your hands and your heart to the weave of the world, though it fights

each turn

But you do not give up so easily

That’s how I know you won’t surrender me You rise and meet the day

It’s all I need, it’s all I need to know, it’s all I need to know

And I love you all the time

I had always feared that some gloomy ingratitude would seize me But you have held the dream like every morning finds

A way to hang the sun up in the sky

And now I think I have it too —

The greatest part I learned from you

You rise and meet the day

And I can see kids, maybe yours, maybe not, ohohoh, I can hear what they’ll say

Laughing at pictures with the old-fashioned hats and the clothes that we’re

wearing today

And they will know the true and humble power

Of love that made it through the darkest hour

You rise and meet the day

It’s all I need, it’s all I need to know, it’s all I need to know